Eurojazzland: Jazz and European Sources, Dynamics, and Contexts

Contents

CONTENTS Introduction luca cerchiari vii part 1 / europe as a source of jazz 1 / The Influence of Celtic Music on the Evolution of Jazz franz kerschbaumer 3 2 / Beyond the ‘‘Spanish Tinge’’: Hispanics and Latinos in Early New Orleans Jazz bruce boyd raeburn 21 3 / Why Did Art Music Composers Pay Attention to ‘‘Jazz’’? The Impact of ‘‘Jazz’’ on the French Musical Field, 1908–1924 martin guerpin 47 4 / Violin and Bowed Strings in Jazz: A French School? vincent cotro 81 5 / Sacred, Country, and Urban Tunes: The European Songbook; ‘‘Greensleeves’’ to ‘‘Les feuilles mortes’’ (‘‘Autumn Leaves’’), ‘‘Gigolo’’ to ‘‘’O sole mio’’ luca cerchiari 98 6 / Across Europe: Improvisation as a Real and Metaphorical Journey arrigo cappelletti 123 part 2 / jazz meets europe 7 / Cross-Cultural Links: Black Minstrels, Cakewalks, and Ragtime rainer e. lotz 143 8 / Benny Carter in Britain, 1936–1937 catherine tackley parsonage 167 9 / ‘‘A New Reason for Living’’: Duke Ellington in France john edward hasse 189 10 / Cool Jazz in Europe manfred straka 214 11 / Orchestral Thoughts: Jazz Composition in Europe and America (An Interview with Composer-Director Giorgio Gaslini) davide ielmini 235 12 / The New Orleans Revival in Britain and France alyn shipton 253 13 / The European Jazz Avant-Garde of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s Where Did Emancipation Lead? ekkehard jost 275 part 3 / the circulation of eurojazzland 14 / Did Europe ‘‘Discover’’ Jazz? laurent cugny 301 15 / European Jazz Developments in Cross-Cultural Dialogue with the United States and Their Relationship to the Counterculture of the 1960s jürgen arndt 342 16 / Europe and the New Jazz Studies tony whyton 366 17 / Revisioning History Lived: Four European Expats, Three Men and One Woman, Who Shaped One American Life in Two American Cultures mike heffley 381 18 / Utopian Sounds: Mimesis and Identity in European Jazz Technologies gianfranco salvatore 407 19 / Roots and Collage: Contemporary European Jazz in Postmodern Times herbert hellhund 431 Contributors 447 Index 449 ...